雪

雪 (Kangxi radical 173, 雨+3, 11 strokes, cangjie input 一月尸一 (MBSM), four-corner 1017₇ or 1017₄, composition ⿱⻗𫜹(GJ) or ⿱⻗⺕(HTK))

• 𠽌, 𡐅, 𡠭, 𢳬, 膤, 樰, 𬎅, 𫟀, 𫃽, 艝, 轌, 鱈(鳕), 𠞯, 𫕣, 𬝹, 𤍱

• KangXi: page 1371, character 29
• Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 42216
• Dae Jaweon: page 1878, character 7
• Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 6, page 4058, character 4
• Unihan data for U+96EA

Historical forms of the character 雪
Shang	Shuowen Jiezi (compiled in Han)	Liushutong (compiled in Ming)
Oracle bone script	Small seal script	Transcribed ancient scripts

Ancient simplification of 䨮, which is in turn phono-semantic compound (形聲, OC *sqʰʷed) : semantic 雨 + phonetic 彗 (OC *sɢʷeds, *ɢʷeds, *sɢʷids).

Schuessler (2007) considers this to be related to Kra-Dai words: Proto-Tai *hnəiᴬ¹ (“snow”), Proto-Kam-Sui *ʔnuːi¹ (“snow”).

Starostin reconstructs Proto-Sino-Tibetan *suăt (“snow”), comparing this with Tibetan སད (sad, “frost, cold air, cold, coldness”), but this connection may be unlikely considering the phonetic part of this character.

雪

1. snow

   下雪  ―  xiàxuě  ―  to snow

2. ^† to snow

   • 晚來天欲雪，能飲一杯無？ [Classical Chinese, trad.]
     晚来天欲雪，能饮一杯无？ [Classical Chinese, simp.]

     From: 白居易《問劉十九》

     Wǎn lái tiān yù xuě, néng yǐn yī bēi wú? [Pinyin]

     Night comes and the sky seems like it might snow; could you drink a cup?

3. to wipe away; to clean

   • 朝食後，告辭天只前，則教「以好赴，大雪國辱。」 [Classical Chinese, trad.]
     朝食后，告辞天只前，则教“以好赴，大雪国辱。” [Classical Chinese, simp.]

     From: 1594, 李舜臣 (Yi Sun-sin), 《亂中日記》 (War Diary of Admiral Yi)

     Zhāoshí hòu, gàocí tiānzhǐ qián, zé jiào “yǐ hǎo fù, dà xuě guórǔ.” [Pinyin]

     After the morning meal, I said my farewells to Mother. Then she instructed me: "Go well; fully cleanse [the country of this] national humiliation."

4. (dialectal) ice; product containing ice
5. (Cantonese) to refrigerate; to store in the refrigerator
6. (Malaysia, Singapore) Short for 雪蘭莪／雪兰莪 (Xuělán'é, “Selangor”).
7. a surname: Xue

• (snow):

• (to snow):

• (to wipe away): 洗刷 (xǐshuā)
• (ice):

Others:

• → Zhuang: siet

• Dictionary of Chinese Character Variants (教育部異體字字典), A04469
• “雪”, in 漢語多功能字庫 (Multi-function Chinese Character Database)‎, 香港中文大學 (the Chinese University of Hong Kong), 2014–

(grade 2 “Kyōiku” kanji)

1. snow
2. white as snow
3. cleanse

• Go-on: せち (sechi)
• Kan-on: せつ (setsu, Jōyō)
• Kun: ゆき (yuki, 雪, Jōyō); すすぐ (susugu, 雪ぐ); そそぐ (sosogu, 雪ぐ)
• Nanori: きよ (kiyo); きよみ (kiyomi); きよむ (kiyomu); せ (se); そそぐ (sosogu); ぶき (buki); まよむ (mayomu); ゆき (yuki)

From Middle Chinese 雪 (MC siuᴇt̚).

• (SK Standard/Seoul) IPA^(key): [sʰʌ̹ɭ]
• Phonetic hangul: [설]

Wikisource 雪 (eumhun 눈 설 (nun seol))

1. Hanja form^? of 설 (“snow”). [affix]

• 국제퇴계학회 대구경북지부 (國際退溪學會 大邱慶北支部) (2007). Digital Hanja Dictionary, 전자사전／電子字典.

(grade 2 “Kyōiku” kanji)

1. hail
2. snow

• Kun: ゆち (yuchi, 雪)

Cognate with Japanese 雪 (yuki, “snow”).

• IPA^(key): [jut͡ɕi]

雪 (hiragana ゆち, rōmaji yuchi)

1. hail
2. snow

• “ゆち【雪】” in JLect - Japonic Languages and Dialects Database Dictionary, 2019.

Found in the Man'yōshū, completed some time after 759 CE.

Reconstructed by some as deriving from Proto-Japonic *yoki.

雪 (yuki₁) (kana ゆき)

1. snow
   • c. 759, Man'yōshū (book 5, poem 822), text here

     和何則能尓 宇米能波奈知流 比佐可多能 阿米欲里由吉能 那何列久流加母

     wa ga so₂no₂ ni ume₂ no₂ pana tiru pi₁sakata no₂ ame₂ yo₁ri yuki₁ no₂ nagarekuru ka mo

     In my garden, the plum blossoms fall, as if snow were streaming down from the [eternal?] heavens.

• Japanese: 雪 (yuki)

• 白妙の, 白栲の (siro₁tape₂ no₂, pillow word that can allude to yuki₁)

Found once in the Man'yōshū in a so-called 東歌 (Azuma uta, literally “eastern song”) in the eastern dialect of Old Japanese.

Probably a misspelling of original ⟨yo₁ki₁⟩, given the Western and modern reflexes. Compare 夜 (yo₁ → yu, “night”).

雪 (yo₂ki₁) (kana よき)

1. (regional, Eastern Old Japanese) snow
   • c. 759, Man'yōshū (book 14, poem 3423), text here

     可美都氣努 伊可抱乃祢呂尓 布路与伎能 遊吉須宜可提奴 伊毛賀伊敝乃安多里

     Kami₁tuke₂no₁ Ikapo no₂ nero₂ ni puro₁ yo₂ki₁ no₂ yuki₁sugi₂katenu imo ga ipe₁ no₂ atari

     Like in Kamitsukeno, on the peak of Ikaho, the falling snow: impassible, near my girl's house

雪: Hán Việt readings: tuyết[1][2][3][4][5][6]

1. chữ Hán form of tuyết (“snow”).